DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES.
Since the last mail there have been more than the usual number of these disastrous windstorms, and the destruction of life and property is appaling. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina were visited by cyclones on April 2nd, and whole villages were blown out of existence. In the Manogahela Valley a wire mill waa rent in twain, and six men perished in the fallen ruins. Among other incidents, the large frame of a dwelling-house at a place called Homestead was lifted from its foundations and carried half a mile without injury. At Huntsville, Ala., a Mrs White and her mother were killed, and a baby of the former was blown several miles into the woods, where it waa found alive next day. Passing through Indiana the track of the storm extended 20 miles in width, and everything in it was wrecked to splinters. In Lynchburgh, Virginia, houses were blown in every direction, and tobacco warehouses wore flattened with the earth. Assistance is asked from the charitable, as wherever the cyolone ranged there are houseless and homeless people.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6851, 6 May 1884, Page 3
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182DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6851, 6 May 1884, Page 3
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